Students in grades 4 and 5 who, on average, spend more than 2 hours a day on screen time

Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2023-2024 Academic Year 2022-2023 Academic Year 2019-2020 Academic Year 2016-2017
Province
New Brunswick
74.2
73.5 - 74.9
78.0
77.4 - 78.7
n/a
56.7
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
73.3
72.1 - 74.5
77.8
76.5 - 79.1
n/a
55.3
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
74.5
73.2 - 75.9
76.6
75.3 - 78.0
n/a
59.3
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
74.5
73.2 - 75.9
78.5
77.2 - 79.8
n/a
54.5
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
66.8
63.9 - 69.7
76.4
73.5 - 79.4
n/a
54.5
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
78.3
74.3 - 82.3
79.4
75.4 - 83.4
n/a
61.0
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
75.3
72.7 - 77.9
80.8
78.5 - 83.1
n/a
61.2
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
81.8
79.2 - 84.5
80.8
78.0 - 83.5
n/a
54.8
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
76.4
72.9 - 80.0
78.0
74.1 - 81.9
n/a
60.3
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
78.4
75.0 - 81.9
85.1
81.1 - 89.1
75.4
59.4
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
75.2
69.7 - 80.6
77.0
71.7 - 82.4
n/a
56.5
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
66.3
60.3 - 72.4
80.3
75.2 - 85.4
n/a
61.3
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
82.4
76.8 - 88.1
82.6
76.7 - 88.4
n/a
64.0
Dieppe and Memramcook
69.0
66.1 - 71.9
77.4
74.2 - 80.6
n/a
51.3
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
76.5
70.3 - 82.6
85.9
81.1 - 90.8
66.5
50.4
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
65.2
61.1 - 69.4
74.0
69.2 - 78.7
70.2
51.8
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
73.2
69.6 - 76.7
78.9
75.4 - 82.5
47.6
54.4
Fredericton
72.6
70.5 - 74.7
76.1
74.0 - 78.2
n/a
51.5
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
77.1
71.4 - 82.9
78.2
72.6 - 83.8
n/a
60.1
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
68.1
63.3 - 72.9
78.5
74.1 - 82.9
65.9
53.1
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
86.9
79.3 - 94.5
84.4
74.7 - 94.0
n/a
66.4
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
68.9
61.5 - 76.3
77.7
70.4 - 85.0
n/a
66.4
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
83.2
77.3 - 89.2
86.8
81.5 - 92.0
74.4
59.8
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
81.1
78.3 - 83.9
80.0
77.1 - 82.9
n/a
53.9
Moncton
74.0
72.2 - 75.7
75.9
74.0 - 77.7
n/a
54.8
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
75.5
69.1 - 81.8
73.8
67.5 - 80.0
n/a
57.9
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
89.9
82.9 - 97.0
88.7
80.8 - 96.7
83.8
64.3
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
71.8
67.7 - 75.9
77.0
73.0 - 81.0
69.9
52.1
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
78.9
75.6 - 82.2
83.0
80.0 - 86.0
n/a
63.6
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
82.1
75.7 - 88.6
77.3
70.4 - 84.2
n/a
54.8
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
67.1
64.6 - 69.7
73.5
71.0 - 76.1
n/a
52.1
Riverview and Coverdale
78.4
75.0 - 81.9
80.5
77.0 - 84.0
63.2
55.5
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
70.8
65.1 - 76.5
71.4
65.3 - 77.5
54.1
64.4
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
78.4
76.4 - 80.3
78.7
76.7 - 80.8
n/a
63.7
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
65.8
59.8 - 71.8
75.5
69.5 - 81.5
n/a
52.4
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
68.5
63.3 - 73.6
85.3
80.7 - 89.9
n/a
58.5
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
82.9
77.5 - 88.3
83.1
77.9 - 88.4
70.0
67.2
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
79.4
74.6 - 84.2
83.6
78.8 - 88.4
n/a
58.1
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
76.0
71.1 - 80.8
80.0
75.6 - 84.4
82.2
61.0
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
74.5
70.5 - 78.5
70.9
66.8 - 75.0
64.0
60.6
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
75.1
68.7 - 81.5
83.2
78.7 - 87.7
69.4
58.9
School districts
Anglophone East School District
76.5
75.1 - 78.0
77.6
76.0 - 79.2
n/a
56.3
Anglophone North School District
80.6
78.3 - 82.9
80.1
77.8 - 82.5
n/a
54.3
Anglophone South School District
74.3
72.9 - 75.6
77.0
75.7 - 78.4
n/a
59.9
Anglophone West School District
75.5
74.1 - 76.8
79.2
77.9 - 80.6
n/a
55.2
Anglophone sector
75.9
75.1 - 76.6
78.2
77.4 - 79.0
n/a
57.0
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
75.7
73.2 - 78.2
81.2
79.0 - 83.4
n/a
62.0
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
64.5
61.3 - 67.7
74.9
71.6 - 78.2
n/a
53.4
District scolaire francophone Sud
69.4
67.6 - 71.1
76.7
74.8 - 78.5
n/a
53.2
Francophone sector
70.3
69.0 - 71.7
77.7
76.4 - 79.0
n/a
56.0
Grades
Grade 4
73.2
72.3 - 74.2
76.8
75.8 - 77.8
n/a
n/a
Grade 5
75.2
74.3 - 76.1
79.2
78.3 - 80.1
n/a
n/a
Gender
Female
65.8
64.7 - 66.8
71.0
69.9 - 72.1
n/a
48.1
Male
81.4
80.6 - 82.3
84.1
83.3 - 84.9
n/a
64.6
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
78.1
75.3 - 80.8
81.2
78.4 - 84.1
n/a
n/a
Immigrant
Immigrants
74.5
72.8 - 76.2
76.3
74.3 - 78.3
n/a
n/a
n/a = Not applicable / not available
S = Data suppressed due to confidentiality requirements and/or small sample size

About

This indicator is the percentage of students in grades 4 and 5 who, on average, spend more than 2 hours a day on screen time. This indicator is based on the Canadian 24 Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth.

Source

New Brunswick Health Council, Student Wellness and Education Survey, Grades 4-5

Calculations

This indicator adds the responses to the following 4 individual questions: 'On most days, how much time do you spend watching TV/movies?', 'On most days, how much time do you spend using a smart phone or tablet (for games, YouTube, FaceTime, etc.)?', 'On most days, how much time do you spend playing video games?' and 'On most days, how much time do you spend using the computer (not for school)?'. The response options for these 4 individual questions are: none, less than 30 min, 30 min, 1 hour, 1 hour and 30 min, '2 hours, 3 hours or more and I do not know. This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of respondents who have a total of 'more than 2 hours' by the number of respondents who answered all 4 individual questions.

Notes

The 2019-2020 edition of this survey was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the number of schools that participated in 2019-2020 is much lower than other editions of the survey, results at the provincial level were deemed not representative of the total student population. Therefore, survey results for New Brunswick, health zones and demographic groups are not available for the 2019-2020 edition. However, 2019-2020 results are available for communities in which the number of participating schools was deemed sufficient to be representative of the student population in that community.

Unit

%

Interpretation

Lower is better

NBHC code

SE_DAA01_1

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